Samuel Powel

Samuel Powel (1738-29 September 1793) was Mayor of Philadelphia from 1775 to 1776, succeeding Samuel Rhoads, and from 1789 to 1790, preceding Samuel Miles. He was a Federalist.

Biography
Samuel Powel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1738, and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania before serving as Mayor from 1775 to 1776 and from 1789 to 1790. From 1790 to 1793, he served in the State Senate as a Federalist. He died in 1793.